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Unpopular opinion, from someone who is not a Trump supporter. The Secret Service and AF did absolutely nothing in wrong in secretly removing Trump from SAM (28000,29000, whichever aircraft it was), and leaving everyone else on-board. 1/

Derek Balling

@derekballing.com

2/If the security detail communicates to anyone that the principal has been removed from the aircraft and secreted somewhere else, the entire point of the removal is lost. The adversaries begin looking immediately for where the principal NOW is, to attack them there instead.

12/8/26, 4:33 am0 reposts0 likes

Derek Balling

@derekballing.com

12 Aug

3/The only way that works is if everyone else -- especially a press corp champing at the bit for a scoop -- is kept completely in the dark that it's happening. Yes, that meant the press were, effectively, decoys. But they were just as much at risk as they were when they boarded in the first place.